TO-DAY'S CABLEGRAMS.
LORD METHUEN CONVALESCENT. MODDER RIVER BRIDGE. BOER TROOPS REINFORCING. THE PRETORIA MINT. THE NATAL BORDER SURVEYED BY BOERS. Telegraph. Press Association. Copyright. Capetown, December 7. The Boers are massing on the Sypytfontein heights, digging and acreen ing rifle pits, and extending the redoubts. Lord Methuen is convalescent. The building of the Modder River bridge involves delay and immense labor. The Lancers near Modder River, while bearing a flag of truce, w*re fired upon. The Boers are in great strength at Aliwal North. Seven thousand retired through Ween&n on Sunday, 3000 are reinforcing General Cronje from Natal. The search light apparatus used in Frere for signalling to Ladysmith was devised by Captain Scott, of the war ship Terrible. The Boers have annexed Griquabour. The inhabitants are enthusiastic. 400 disloyal farmers are guarding the river there. The Pretoria mint is coining at the rate of monthly from crushings of the Bonanza and Robinson's Ferreira deep mines. It has transpired that General Joubert last spring surveyed the Natal border and the vicinity of Maritzburg.
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Feilding Star, Volume XXI, Issue 136, 8 December 1899, Page 2
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173TO-DAY'S CABLEGRAMS. Feilding Star, Volume XXI, Issue 136, 8 December 1899, Page 2
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